--- ---  # Did This 3-Month-Old Just Say 'I Love You'? ## Video: 5 Elements of A Viral Video [Watch (HLS stream): 5 Elements of A Viral Video](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8) (1:31)  _Published 2015-06-22. 5 Elements of A Viral Video_ by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Jul 25, 2015 8:12 PM UTC  Ted Moskalenko by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Jul 25, 2015 8:12 PM UTC We’ve heard of early talkers before, but this is ridiculous. In a YouTube video posted by user [Ted Moskalenko](https://www.youtube.com/user/tdmosk/feed), a baby described as a 3-month-old mimics a man saying “I love you” with very convincing similarity in tone and fairly audible diction (for an infant who can’t yet actually talk). Moskalenko writes on the post, “My baby boy Ben said ‘I love you’ for the first time. Good thing my wife had the camera rolling.” We’ll be checking back on Ben’s status as a child prodigy in a few years’ time. Did This 3-Month-Old Just Say 'I Love You'? ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3972383/3-month-old-i-love-you/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3972383/3-month-old-i-love-you/"},"headline":"Did This 3-Month-Old Just Say 'I Love You'?","datePublished":"2015-07-25T20:12:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:18.488Z","description":"This is some first-class mimicry","url":"https://time.com/3972383/3-month-old-i-love-you/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre","baby"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6bca446c8dfcfd06/69885c82e20a875d0fa8c71f/screen-shot-2015-07-25-at-3-55-27-pm1.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6bca446c8dfcfd06/69885c82e20a875d0fa8c71f/screen-shot-2015-07-25-at-3-55-27-pm1.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-07-25 at 3.55.27 PM","caption":"","creditText":"Ted Moskalenko","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3972383/3-month-old-i-love-you/","name":"Did This 3-Month-Old Just Say 'I Love You'?"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","description":"5 Elements of A Viral Video","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/vgQtqA8c/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-22T13:42:30.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vgQtqA8c.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3972383/3-month-old-i-love-you/","duration":"PT1M31S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3972383/3-month-old-i-love-you/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```